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Solution Designer

Brief description

The role of the Solution Designer is to develop and improve a business's capabilities to help deliver projects more efficiently, as well as helping to reduce the operational risks associated with application currently running under operating systems or system software which in the future may be unsupported. (Solutions Designer; Greythorn, CareerOne, 19 August, 2007)  They will assist in providing architecture input into business strategy and to technical design workshops to facilitate effective, adaptive, sharable and timely solution outcomes - resolving architectural or design conflicts in a proactive and timely manner. (Principal Solutions Designer; ECareer, CareerOne, 19 August, 2007)

Solution Designer - Top 4 Banking

Acting as a bridge between the Development Team and the Architects, the Solution Designer will assume responsibility for continued solution alignment throughout the project lifecycle. As a permanent role this opportunity offers excellent remuneration, exposure to newer and legacy systems, career path choices and a supportive culture. (seek.com.au, 21 August 2007)

Duties & responsibilities of this role inlcude:

  • Designing efficient, robust code to ensure systems and enhancements support end-to-end business needs and processes (seek.com.au, 20 August, 2007; CareerOne, 14 August, 2007)
  • Evaluating business problems and developing solution designs for the affected areas (seek.com.au, 20 August, 2007).
  • Supporting the production incidents through root cause analysis to identify if the production issues were as a result of a design defect (CareerOne, 14 August, 2007)
  • Providing third-line support for any major IT infrastructure issues where necessary
  • Producing high level IT Infrastructure Solution Design documentation for new platforms, services and major new client requirements (seek.com.au, 20 August, 2007; CareerOne, 14 August, 2007)
  • Providing advice to the business for the effective application of technologies (seek.com.au, 20 August, 2007; eFinancialCareers.com.au, 18 August, 2007)
  • Assisting the Solution Design Lead in design and development (seek.com.au, 20 August, 2007).
  • Supporting the market proposition development, product design and launch of innovative Managed Messaging & Collaboration Products Architect
  • Contribute to strategic database design, development and deployment supporting projects/deliverables (seek.com.au, 20 August, 2007)

Solution Designer - Top 4 Banking

  • Development of both  high-level and functional design documents in a range of projects and the various technologies (seek.com.au, 21 August 2007)
  • Be responsible for cross-capability, cross-release issues that impact the architecture and greater PMO (seek.com.au, 21 August 2007)
  • Undertake problem analysis, design production fixes and minor enhancements (seek.com.au, 21 August 2007)
  • Providing advice to the business for the effective application of technologies (seek.com.au, 21 August 2007)
  • Assisting the Solution Design Lead in design and development standards (seek.com.au, 21 August 2007)

Job requirements

Academic qualifications:

  • Tertiary or professional qualifications in Computer Science, Information Technology, or relevant computer-related courses (seek.com.au, 20 August, 2007; eFinancialCareers.com.au, 18 August, 2007; Seek.com.au, 14 August, 2007)

Essential skills:

  • Strong knowledge with Windows and Unix technology
  • In-house and vendor supplied application concepts and application layers
  • Various development languages (4GLs and OO)
  • Migrating applications from one environment to another, for example SQL 6.5 or 7 to SQL 2000
  • Systems integration experience in complex legacy environments (seek.com.au, 20 August, 2007; eFinancialCareers.com.au, 18 August, 2007)
  • Commercial understanding of a complex IT environment

Desirable skills and experience:w

  • Server deployment and/or application server consolidation/rationalization on Windows 2003 and AIX 5.3 platforms  
  • Broad understanding of financial applications such as credit risk, treasury, financial markets, corporate and institutional banking products
  • Extensive experience within Technology industry (seek.com.au, 20 August, 2007)
  • Experience across the software development life-cycle (Seek.com.au 14 August 2007)
  • Exposure to the Banking Industry (eFinancialCareers.com.au, 18 August, 2007)
  • IT or telecommunications/data communication engineering experience within a medium to large organisation (Seek.com.au, 14 August, 2007)
  • Analysis and design experience on complex projects (seek.com.au, 20 August, 2007; eFinancialCareers.com.au, 18 August, 2007; seek.com.au, 14 August, 2007).
  • Experience with both packaged and custom build software (seek.com.au, 20 August, 2007)

Personal skills and attributes:

  • Excellent oral, written and communication skills
  • Proven ability and commitment to work collaboratively toward common goals
  • Possess effective planning and problem-solving skills
  • Equally comfortable operating from within both the technology & business environments
  • Highly motivated
  • Focuses on a quality outcome
  • Excellent inter-personal skills Technical Experience  

Solution Designer - Top 4 Banking

  • Analysis and design experience on complex 'enterprise sized' projects (seek.com.au, 21 August 2007)
  • Systems integration experience  in complex legacy environments involving mainframe transaction processing, web delivery, message integration and data warehousing components (seek.com.au, 21 August 2007)
  • Technology industry experience, exposure to the Banking industry (seek.com.au, 21 August 2007)
  • Software development life-cycle, including estimation and business case development (seek.com.au, 21 August 2007)
  • Development and deployment experience on more than one platform and exposure to multiple development methodologies (seek.com.au, 21 August 2007)
  • Tertiary qualification in Technology discipline or related field (seek.com.au, 21 August 2007)

Salary

Average Salary $90,107 (www.mycareer.com.au, 14 August, 2007) 

$100,000 (mycareer.com.au, 18 August, 2007) 

$130,000 plus bonuses (www.careerone.com.au, 12 August, 2007): (http://www.hays.com.au/Common/Pages/job/jobdescription.aspx?id=130254&n=0&j=1, 14 August, 2007

$120, 000 plus bonuses (seek.com.au, 20 August, 2007)

Industry/Organisation

A Solution Designer can work across many industries though mainly in banking, finance and telecommunications.

 

Job listings


Differences observed

Most of the advertisements for a Solutions Designer all required similar knowledge, skills and experience regardless of the area or organisation, ie. banking, finance or telecommunications.
Every position advertised required an in depth technical knowledge in the area, as well as consulting skills, problem solving and analytical abilities.  They also required excellent personal skills.  Comparitively, other Business Analyst positions did not necessarily require such in depth technical knowledge.

Most of the jobs added have the same sort of requirements and responsibilites. Because one kind of job would have the same sort of job requirements and responsibilites.

Other References used

Solution designer.com, retrieved 15 August 2007
http://www.solutiondesigner.com/index.htm

Wikipedia, retrieved 7 August 2007
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

Ciscolab.com.au, retrieved 9 August 2007
http://www.ciscolab.com.au/v3/index.php?gclid=CKaU1OK26I0CFRK2YAodGSOYCg

Cisco.com, retrieved 12 August 2007
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/hmpgs/index.html



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